On a sunny bank holiday Monday in Wylam, workers were rigging up lighting and setting the scene in readiness for a night-time shoot for Vera.
With filming under way on the latest series of the ITV crime drama, the focus has now switched to the Northumberland village where crew vehicles have been parked up and last -minute preparations are being carried out. The historic Points Bridge below Hagg Bank was at the centre of Monday night's action, when the summer setting will take on a whole new atmosphere as darkness falls and 'action' is called on the specially-lit scene.
Earlier preparations had already seen construction work completed at Points Bridge, with parts of the historic waggonway beneath having been resurfaced. This new series of Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn as the much-loved no-nonsense detective, is the 13th and once again has brought cast and crew back to the region they have come to know so well.
